[water falling]
♪ [drumming] ♪
- ♪ If you've never been crushed
♪ I'll spare you the layout
♪ just crawl into a cannon and sing as the fuse fade out
♪ What an incredible gift it is to soak in devastation
♪ To cry inside your coffin when the diggers grow impatient
♪ and you get to tell it all for 50 minutes a week
♪ to a counselor who cannot seduce you out of your sleep
♪ and all the king's horses carry all the king's men
♪ to the conclusion that a cheater was never my best friend
- (♪ Oooh, oooh ♪)
- Diji: ♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ I never intended to push you far
♪ or force you into submission over who you are
♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ I never intended to push you far
♪ or force you into submission over who you are
[echoing] ♪ are, are, are
[metallic clinking]
[buzzing]
[out of breath panting]
♪ I think humility would rather have different reasons to visit
♪ but if it must, it will, and if it will, then you gon' get it
♪ now the scriptures' making sense in an ironic turn of events
♪ Caught me balling up my fists to the note of self righteousness
♪ instead of hog-tying my pain to a pen and a page
♪ so I scribbled until the miracle got to a vein
♪ and my momma was still my momma in spite of the war
♪ Who for her baby would choke an elephant out of its roar
- (♪ Oooh, oooh ♪)
- Diji: ♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ I never intended to push you far
♪ or force you into submission over who you are
♪ I'll be the light before it gets dark
♪ cause I'm the one who memorized the beat of your heart
♪ I never intended to push you far
♪ or force you into submission over who you are
- ♪ Thaw out the joy in the heat of your palm
♪ pretend it's cool that Hope was leading you on
♪ write the bitterest, most infamous, villainous poem
♪ nearly blow out a lung every chance you get to perform
♪ believe your momma when she says that it broke her too
♪ and also when she says your ex ain't that cute
♪ then make peace with the sticks and stones inside of you
♪ and fly when she says you can go back to your school
- (♪ Oooh, oooh ♪)
[zipping bag]
(♪ Oooh, oooh ♪)
[phone chimes for incoming text]
[phone chimes again]
[writing audibly]